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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purpose does the initial introduction to "Stop-Time's" supporting characters serve for other chapters?
(a) Gives background information on the author.
(b) Gives a partial perspective, in which they unfold later in the text in great detail.
(c) Takes away from the author's main purpose for having them in the text.
(d) Supports the author's initial character.

2. Where does the prologue take place?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) England.
(c) New York.
(d) Ft. Lauderdale.

3. What does the prologue offer the reader?
(a) Describe's the author's visions.
(b) A sense of the author as a human being.
(c) A background on the author's family.
(d) An excuse to read more.

4. What has the author gained between the time he writes about these events to the time in which they actually took place?
(a) Maturity.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Insight.
(d) Patience.

5. What did the author and the other boys accuse Ligget of being?
(a) A racist.
(b) A bigot.
(c) Funny.
(d) Fat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author recall about the conditions of the person he remembers in Chapter 1?

2. Where did the author and his family go at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. Where did Jean travel to get the things he needed to begin his plans of making money in Chapter 3?

4. What does the author feel is necessary to be interrupted?

5. What other memory does the author also narrate at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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